Bad actors are already using AI to accelerate fraud, theft, money laundering, and more. We need to move fast to match and then outpace that acceleration.
Today, at our annual Links conference, we’re introducing the next chapter of Chainalysis: blockchain intelligence agents. This isn’t a new product or a bolted-on chatbot feature. Agents are the evolution of the platform we’ve built and everything we’ve learned — billions of screened transactions, over ten million investigations, more than a decade of blockchain intelligence — that will work alongside your team.
Democratizing blockchain intelligence within your organization
Chainalysis has built the most comprehensive blockchain dataset in the world, trusted by governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to investigate, comply, and protect. Only our data has been ruled reliable and admissible in court. Our tools have powered the most consequential investigations in crypto history.
Until now, unlocking that intelligence required specialized skill sets. Chainalysis blockchain intelligence agents put the full depth of our platform — our data, products, and institutional expertise — into the hands of anyone in your organization. From seasoned investigators and compliance analysts to executives, Chainalysis agents provide insights and multiply what your team can do.
The harness that makes it all work
Everyone is building AI agents. The difference is what’s behind them.
We have the context of every type of investigation you run and the compliance obligations you navigate daily. We know how transactions on the blockchain actually function, and the workflows, audit trails, and standards of evidence you rely on.
Chainalysis is the harness. Without it, an agent is just a language model guessing. But with it, an agent reasons like an experienced analyst working at machine speed.
Chainalysis agents are built responsibly because your missions demand it. There is no room for hallucinated outputs or black-box reasoning. That’s why we’ve engineered Chainalysis agents around four key principles:
- Data quality: As models become more powerful, the quality of the underlying data matters exponentially more, and building AI on bad data will only accelerate bad outcomes. No one has data with comparable breadth, depth, and accuracy.
- Context & reasoning: Our institutional domain expertise in investigations and compliance enables agents to deliver more accurate results more quickly.
- Auditable results and deterministic workflows: For critical decisions, the same inputs, rules, and data always produce the same outcome, so automation stays predictable, consistent, and defensible. In other contexts, you can use agents for signals intelligence and exploration. We always make it clear whether you’re in deterministic or exploratory mode, and provide audit trails in both modes.
- Humans in control: Chainalysis blockchain intelligence agents are designed for regulated, high‑stakes decisions. Humans decide what can be automated and at what level of independence.
How teams are already using agents
We’re already seeing what’s possible. During early development, Chainalysis agents have been used for:
- Complex investigation workflows spanning multiple chains and entities — work that used to take days compressed into minutes, with full audit trails.
- Alert enrichment and automation for compliance — agents that take a raw alert, pull in context from across the platform, enrich it, and when appropriate, take automatic action to dismiss or escalate to an analyst.
- Summary reports generated on demand — structured, defensible intelligence reports that would have taken analysts hours to compile.
- Full web applications built from scratch — custom tools and dashboards purpose-built for specific investigative or compliance needs.
- Time-based transaction identification — finding and flagging activity across specific windows with precision, at scale.
- Open-source intelligence collection — augmenting investigations with OSINT, gathered and organized automatically.
- Orchestrate teams of agents — set up agents to monitor on-chain activity, alert on activity, conduct automated analysis, and surface leads to humans for action.
Crypto is scaling, and your team’s capacity has to scale with it. Chainalysis agents make that possible.
What comes next
Blockchain intelligence agents will begin rolling out over the summer.
We’re starting where we know we can have the most impact: investigations and compliance. As bad actors increasingly leverage AI to scale their operations, it’s critical that those working to stop them do the same. Over time, we expect people in a broad range of roles within organizations of all kinds to use Chainalysis agents to unlock entirely new categories of blockchain insight.
We aren’t building the future of Chainalysis alone. You are building it with us.
